The beta bound under projective-injective socle rejection #
Simultaneous rejection removes projective-injective vertices and replaces
each of them by its socle quotient. At an ordinary surviving endpoint the
right-mesh arity is unchanged. At a replacement endpoint the ambient middle
term has one additional occurrence, but that occurrence is the deleted
projective itself and hence is not counted by beta.
At a replacement endpoint, the nonprojective ambient middle occurrences fit inside the rejected middle term: the single additional ambient occurrence is the selected projective-injective itself.
If every right-mesh middle term of the simultaneous socle quotient has
arity at most bound, then the ambient beta is at most bound. Ordinary
surviving endpoints keep their arity; at a replacement endpoint the one
discarded occurrence is projective and therefore invisible to beta.